Algorhythmic governance: Regulating the ‘heartbeat’ of a city using the Internet of Things

Big Data and Society

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Coletta, Claudio ^a   Kitchin, Rob ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Algorhythm; algorithmic governance; Internet of Things; rhythmanalysis; smart cities; time geography

Indexed keywords

EID: 85056505068     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20539517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2053951717742418     Document Type: Article

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